Sunday Stealing-How Far Will You Go?

How Far Will You Go?

 

Hi! Our host is Bev Sykes of the blog "Funny the World". . Welcome to Sunday Stealing. This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!

 

Stolen from How Far Will You Go?

 

 

 

1.  What was the warmest welcome you’ve ever received? I don’t know…maybe my surprise birthday party in 2021. There were guests that I never expected would go so far out of their way to attend.

2.  What was the best thing about your youth? My Mom. Not only was she a great Mom to my sister and I, she was also Mom of the neighborhood. She was a SAHM, one of the few left on our block. She kissed boo boos, gave hugs, gave treats, and tried to impart some coping skills, or better ways to handle what made them upset.

3.  Who is the most interesting person you’ve ever met? Our couple friends. They both worked for a utility and have fascinating stories. Some of them about near Chernobyl events.

4.  What is the least you’ve ever worn in public? A bathing suit.

5. What was the worst vacation you ever took? In order to answer this I would actually have to take vacations. I’ve been to Florida twice. The 2nd time was uncomfortable and painful, but I wouldn’t classify it as a “worst vacation”. My sister and I drove to Florida and the Keys. At the end of the stay in the Keys I had a dental issue that required a root canal. We drove all the way back to Wisconsin where I had to find a dentist. 

6.  What room in your home do you spend the most time? Master bedroom.

7.  Who made the strongest first impression on you? I don’t know that I could think of one.

8.  What was the most surprising action you’ve ever taken. Oh there have been many. I’ll list the most obvious…coming out to myself first, then to my grade school aged children. Children understand more than you know and they really don’t have the preconceived notions adults do on the subject, and it just rolls off them like you just told them tomorrow is Saturday. They don’t seem to feel it affects you or them any differently. (Of course that is if you raised your children right and never marginalized, were hateful towards LGBTQA people, or spoke in bad hateful terms about the subject.)

9.  When was your life most out of control? Right now seems like it. Too many health things going on at the same time. Doctors only telling you worst case scenario’s, not even mentioning what the not so worrisome things it could be until after test results are available. I think they should tell you both to be both prepared for the worst, but also cognizant of the not so bad things it could be. It certainly would have saved me a lot of angst and lost sleep. I never knew what the best case scenario was. And I was fortunate enough to find out that my test results were the best case scenario.

10.  What would you be best at, were you to change careers? I did go to college for accounting and spent my entire career doing some type of accounting for different types of businesses. I always thought that if I would change careers I would want to get involved in social work, or working at a place like my daughter receives services at. Both my kids illness have taught me a lot of stuff you don’t learn in college and taught me to recognize the crackpot providers. (Of which there are many. I always used to say that some mental health providers come by their profession from personal/family experience. Quite a few were more messed up than the patients.) In addition to my kid’s illnesses, I’ve been exposed to other illnesses while visiting my kids daily during hospitalizations and I got to see a lot of kids with different illnesses, how they presented, and how staff handled situations.

11.  What is the cruelest thing a person has ever said to you? The very cruelest thing I think I’ve blocked out, but generally it was nasty comments and belittling me for being a fat kid.

12.  What is the best thing you ever won as a prize? Let me go check…well…I can’t say it’s a big lottery jackpot, but I won $1 Thursday and Friday night. I know I’ve won other things, but I don’t think I’d refer to any of them as “the best”.

13, What is your strongest argument against capital punishment? In general I am for capital punishment, however, it concerns me a lot when I see in the news stories about sloppy convictions. The ones that bothers me the most are the cases of the mentally ill, or people with learning disabilities (previously referred to as mentally retarded). Those 2 classes of prisoners shouldn’t be rushed through the courts, and in some cases should be changed to life in prison, or rehabilitation and release (where possible).

14.  What have you been most ignorant about in life? The selfishness of others. Right now you could say we have a pandemic of selfishness.

15.Where would you most hate to be pierced? Umm…my lady bits. I’ve heard from some people that their experience was not one of pain. But who can be sure what anyone’s personal experience will be before going through with being pierced?

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